Occupying the mind does not mean keeping it ignorant. The most curious mind is usually the most empty one, provided the emptiness is not due to sheer laziness. Young minds are very empty, and the only sure way to fill them properly is to give them complete and adequate knowledge. If the adolescent girl knows the true clean facts of sex, she will not spend surreptitious hours poring over filthy books. This ignorance not only pollutes the young mind, but helps to ruin the young eyes. Girls seek eagerly for trashy books, then read them in bed, at night, and hide them during the day, for fear of being caught with them. The moralists of today who would suppress all of the so-called foul literature would achieve their purpose if, instead of indicting these books, they turned their energies to teaching youth the decent facts. This would immediately decrease the market for such trash, for the educated mind gets no thrill out of such books. These books pander to the ignorant, the curious-minded. The young people seize them, and read them avidly, in the vain hope of learning something of this whispered mystery. They are invariably disappointed. There would be nothing really wrong with such books, if they actually told any facts. They don’t—they merely add fuel to an already hot fire. The girl’s mind, properly equipped with a knowledge of the realities of life, should be fed on good books. She should be encouraged in the studies that she prefers. It is a great mistake of parents to force their children to learn certain things, whether the children want to or not. If the girl shows a fondness for languages, let her study them; if she leans toward astronomy, let her learn what she can about it. True, it may be an interest of which she will soon tire, but some of it will linger in her mind, and the mental training will be invaluable. As much as possible, turn the adolescent mind toward things outside of itself. Interest the young girl in the world about her, and thus avoid that super-development of the ego that leads to the lonely introspective person.